The episodes that served as the backdoor pilots for Police Woman (1974), Joe Forrester (1975) and David Cassidy - Man Undercover (1978) all aired on this show.
Serial killer Edmund Kemper once said in an interview that this show taught him how not to get caught by the police.
Several two hour episodes, which includes all season five segments, and the television movies A Cry for Justice (1979) and Police Story: Confessions of a Lady Cop (1980), have aired in syndication in two, one-hour segments.
In one episode, "Incident in the Killing Zone", starred Jan-Michael Vincent, Alex Cord, and James Farentino. They later play in two action shows which consists of two high-tech helicopters known as "Airwolf" (1984) and "Blue Thunder" (1984). Speaking of "Blue Thunder," Joe Santos, who starred in one episode of "Police Story," was in the movie of the same name.
Jan-Michael Vincent and Robert Englund appeared in "Buster and Billie" (1974) and "Big Wednesday" (1978).